GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| aria | air |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |